Nel suo scritto precedente, Nick Le Lievre ha sostenuto :
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Still he did me a favour cos at least now I have a working system albeit
with a less then perfect 2.1gb hard drive with 967MB free space lol


Just ran the SP4 update from windowsupdate.microsoft.com and it failed with
a missing file and I had to roll back the installation. Then it reboot
after which scandisk ran and took its time to complete then Windows had to
verify free space which took more time.

After this it booted to desktop as per normal but I was worried that the
drive was failing for a while there. Maybe it ran scandisk becuase of the
changes due to partly installing SP4 then rolling it back.


According to this snippet of info http://tinyurl.com/cl387 its a good idea
to run a chkdsk before installing SP4 now I know this I`m not surprised it
failed to install.


Well a quite look at the system log in the event viewer confirms it:

11/01/2006 03:43:23 NtServicePack Error None 4373 PENTIUMII\Nick Le Lievre
PENTIUMII Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 installation failed.
The system cannot find the file specified.

11/01/2006 03:43:19 Disk Error None 7 N/A PENTIUMII The device,
\Device\Harddisk0\DR0, has a bad block.
11/01/2006 03:43:17 Disk Error None 7 N/A PENTIUMII The device,
\Device\Harddisk0\DR0, has a bad block.
11/01/2006 03:43:16 Disk Error None 7 N/A PENTIUMII The device,
\Device\Harddisk0\DR0, has a bad block.
11/01/2006 03:43:15 Disk Error None 7 N/A PENTIUMII The device,
\Device\Harddisk0\DR0, has a bad block.
11/01/2006 03:43:13 Disk Error None 7 N/A PENTIUMII The device,
\Device\Harddisk0\DR0, has a bad block.
11/01/2006 03:43:12 Disk Error None 7 N/A PENTIUMII The device,
\Device\Harddisk0\DR0, has a bad block.
11/01/2006 03:43:11 Disk Error None 7 N/A PENTIUMII The device,
\Device\Harddisk0\DR0, has a bad block.
11/01/2006 03:43:09 Disk Error None 7 N/A PENTIUMII The device,
\Device\Harddisk0\DR0, has a bad block.

WOW
A new hard drive?

For SP4 in win2k... try nlite and do a win2k installation cd with sp4
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